Integrated Cloud Consulting - Cloud FinOps Manager (Location Flexible)

About the role

RSM US LLP is seeking a Cloud & FinOps Manager with strong cloud modernization experience and a demonstrated ability to help clients govern, optimize, and extract financial value from their technology investments. This role is hands-on and client-facing, combining delivery leadership with FinOps expertise to guide organizations through migration, modernization, cost optimization, and ongoing value management.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading multiple client engagements simultaneously, including cloud migration, modernization, and FinOps transformation initiatives
• Serving as a trusted advisor to client technology and finance leaders, with a strong focus on cloud economics, cost transparency, and value realization
• Designing and executing FinOps operating models, including cost allocation, budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, and optimization
• Translating technical architecture and usage patterns into business-aligned financial insights and recommendations
• Supporting business development by identifying FinOps-led opportunities within existing and new client relationships
• Partnering with cloud vendors and FinOps tooling providers to design and implement client solutions
• Managing, mentoring, and developing consulting team members across geographies
• Contributing to the development of repeatable FinOps and cloud value management offerings, reference architectures, and delivery accelerators
• Collaborating across RSM service lines to integrate FinOps into broader cloud, AI, and managed services offerings

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience
• Strong proficiency in FinOps frameworks, tools, and best practices
• Experience across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments
• Strong financial and business acumen with the ability to communicate technical concepts in business terms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong project management, organizational, and stakeholder management capabilities
• Ability to work effectively in distributed and virtual teams
• Willingness and ability to travel as required

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience implementing cloud cost management and optimization solutions
• Strong understanding of technology financial management beyond cloud, including application and platform spend
• Experience linking cloud spend to business KPIs, outcomes, and operating metrics
• Experience with application portfolio assessment and migration planning
• Familiarity with modernization and refactoring strategies informed by cost and value drivers
• Experience leveraging automation to improve operational efficiency and cost controls
• Working knowledge of current AI platforms and copilots as applied to cloud operations, cost analysis, and modernization
• Hands-on exposure to tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, or similar platforms